MOROCCO CONTEXT CHALLENGES

The cost of natural resource The Global Mechanism (GM) was established under Article 21 of the United Nations Convention degradation in the forest, agricultural and rangeland sectors and following the to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and began silting up of dams is calculated to be 2.9 billion dirhams a year. [...] effectiveness and efficiency of existing financial This is the aim of the GM’s support to the design of a national resource mobilization mechanisms… [and]… to promote actions leading to strategy based on ensuring coherence between internal and external financing and the mobilization and channelling of substantial financial resources to affected developing country the integrated application of a ra. [...] These partners include Spain that has made combating desertification a priority for its cooperation with Morocco, along with Japan, Belgium, the World Bank, the European Commission and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which have responded positively to the strategy by cooperating in the framework of NAP implementation. [...] Together with IFAD and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the GM has facilitated access to Global Environment Facility (GEF) resources by financing the design of a GEF/PDF-B project that raised USD 6 million for Morocco, complementing an integrated development project to combat desertification and reduce poverty in the east of the country totalling USD 18.8 million. [...] In recent years, the HCEFLCD and other national stakeholders (in agriculture, water resources and the environment) have designed 53 projects based on the four priority pillars of the NAP: Pillar 1: support to combating desertification; Pillar 2: support to income-generating initiatives; Pillar 3: activities to fight desertification and mitigate the effects of drought; and Pillar 4: knowled.